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Subject: Re: New Soundscapes/Field Recordings
From: "Volker Widmann" volwid
Date: Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:37 am ((PST))
Hi Louie,

even though some people might be alienated by bringing philosophical concep=
ts into the discussion, I would like to point out that the idea of the subl=
ime is exactly what explains the love of natural sound that all of us here =
on the list share.
Nature recording is all about aesthetics and I would like to assume that we=
 all see in what we are doing "a greatness beyond all possibility of calcul=
ation, measurement or imitation", which is the definition of the sublime.
And every nature recordist sooner or later gets into contact with "the nobl=
e, the splendid, and the terrifying". With the latter often being forgotten=
, but an encounter with mosquitoes, ticks or predators also brings the terr=
or back into the scene.

Isn't it great that we are philosophers without knowing?

Volker


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:20:20 +0000
> Von: Louie <>
> An: 
> Betreff: [Nature Recordists] Re: New Soundscapes/Field Recordings

> Hi John,
>
> Perhaps it was unclear and I don't mean to derail the thread but I was
> replying to Jos=E9 who brought up the Kantian notion of the sublime. What=
 I
> meant was that the sublime is quite a strange idea to mention in the
> context of a nature recordists group as Kant believed that in order for
> humans to fully appreciate the sublime (all examples of which are
> typically
> natural; seeing and hearing the ocean for instance), we have to filter
> what
> he understood as nature's terrifying elements (the 'wild, crude and
> repulsive') and re-present them in a form we could appreciate as
> beautiful.
> I'm not sure if that is how people here see their role as recordists...
>
> Also, I was mixing up this thread with the other one (new soundscapes and
> realism), my mistake.
>
> Louie.
>
>
>

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